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Well this is concerning…
X ^ | May 19, 2026 | Dweller (@One_Way_Home)

Posted on 05/19/2026 4:59:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

Watch the video at the X link (it's only 25 seconds). Still photos below.



TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; avatar
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I posted one of the pics to Claude and asked if it is real AI work. It replied:


This is a common technique for creating AI/deepfake-style avatar videos.

What the setup suggests:

The system works like this:

The result is a realistic-looking video of the "AI girl" that mimics his expressions

Tools commonly used for this:

The giveaway: He is the "puppeteer" behind the AI persona — a technique widely used by content creators running AI influencer accounts.

It's a clever (if deceptive) content creation strategy that has become quite widespread.


I had no idea this is how many of the AI vids are done.
1 posted on 05/19/2026 4:59:49 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

So I can become a Classy Green-Eyed Blonde??


2 posted on 05/19/2026 5:03:27 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Now imagine they start face timing you as your kid away at school. Asking to bail them out of jail.

AI detectors will be big business.


3 posted on 05/19/2026 5:04:23 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

With stuff like this, Joe Biden might still be president — sharp as a tack and everything.


4 posted on 05/19/2026 5:04:59 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Larry Lucido

Boy, you go way back around here. Then again, so do I!


5 posted on 05/19/2026 5:05:31 PM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: Larry Lucido
So I can become a Classy Green-Eyed Blonde??

Only virtually, and if you want to post the images and get the attention of a bunch of online perverts. I don't advise it.

6 posted on 05/19/2026 5:07:48 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Are you not entertained?
Is that not why you are here?”
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~ Maximus Decimus Meridius


7 posted on 05/19/2026 5:07:49 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th ( I am obsessed with not being obsessed with anything.)
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To: Larry Lucido

“Classy Green-Eyed Blonde” — LOL. Good memory! How many will get it?


8 posted on 05/19/2026 5:09:17 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: Larry Lucido
So I can become a Classy Green-Eyed Blonde??


Indeed you can - a lucrative OnlyFans career awaits you.

9 posted on 05/19/2026 5:09:42 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Or, “With stuff like this, Pratt could be mayor of LA”


10 posted on 05/19/2026 5:09:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Typically, just the live ones. For non-live content, it’s easier just to instruct your AI of choice to do it. If you have a base video, then it gets simpler.

Remember: the hands tell the story! IYKYK lol

But this isn’t even a touch what AI can be used for when it comes to fakes. Dig a bit when you’re either a) drunk, b) lonely, or c) feeling impervious. ;)


11 posted on 05/19/2026 5:11:02 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

As usual, the hair texture and movement is the giveaway that it’s fake as well as the uniformity of the skin. Then there is the light off the clothing textures.

It’s not there, yet.


12 posted on 05/19/2026 5:12:32 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Our former freeper / creeper was ahead or behind the times depending on ones point of view.


13 posted on 05/19/2026 5:12:44 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
“Classy Green-Eyed Blonde” — LOL. Good memory! How many will get it?

I picked it up immediately. A former FR screen name. Haven't seen a post in years.

14 posted on 05/19/2026 5:12:52 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: stevio

RE: Boy, you go way back around here. Then again, so do I!.

Three Stooges.
Snooty Man: “This piece of furniture goes back to Louis XIV.”

Curly: “That’s nothing. We had a couch that went back to Sears on Third and Maple.”


15 posted on 05/19/2026 5:13:04 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Vermont Lt

> Now imagine they start face timing you as your kid away at school. <

As you might know, that’s already being done with voices. A scammer captures a clip of someone’s voice, and feeds it into an app.

The app can now make new sentences in that voice.

As a side point, I don’t know why the federal government isn’t raining hell down on this scammers. There are scam-baiters on YouTube who do a pretty good job of disrupting scammers. Call-flooding, etc.

Imagine what the federal government could do.


16 posted on 05/19/2026 5:15:00 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Vermont Lt

I don’t really understand much about this.

But I know advertising companies used to pay for labs to have people sit and look at ads and then the computers analyze where the eyes looked, for how long and with what expression.


17 posted on 05/19/2026 5:15:43 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

Curly actually said: that’s nothing, we had a bed that went back to Sears Roebuck the third


18 posted on 05/19/2026 5:16:02 PM PDT by RightWingNutJob69
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To: fidelis; Larry Lucido

So I can become a Classy Green-Eyed Blonde??

Only virtually, and if you want to post the images and get the attention of a bunch of online perverts. I don’t advise it.

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You’re just trailblazing the new trans without being a cut-out.


19 posted on 05/19/2026 5:16:07 PM PDT by Texaspeptoman (Even cannibals... get fed up with people sometimes.)
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To: Leaning Right

Yes, I heard that words you say to the phone scammers and telemarketers are gathered and they can later someday say, with your recorded voice “Yes”——to I give permission to charge my debit account for that deal. Creepy.


20 posted on 05/19/2026 5:19:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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